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Player Management API Sample: Create a Player

Product(s)

Video Cloud

Role(s)

API Developer

Task(s)

Create & Configure Players

Topic(s)

Code Samples

API(s)

Player Management API

In this example, you enter your account information. As well, you enter a URL to media and the media type, or a Video Cloud video id. On click of the button, a player will be created and selected information about the player displayed.

Disclaimer

This sample app is meant as a way for you to explore the basics of the Player Management API. It is not meant to be an enterprise ready, deployable app. For instance, form validation is not exhaustive and passwords are sent NOT using HTTPS.

To learn about the general approach concerning the architecture of this sample app, specifically authentication and AJAX implementations, see the examples that use HTTPRequest.

App architecture

The high-level application logic for this app is as follows:

Gather user data necessary to create a player

Build the JSON data structure to pass to the API for player creation

On button click, perform AJAX call to create player

On AJAX call success perform the following:

Inject JSON response data into HTML page

Call function to publish player

Perform AJAX call to publish player

On AJAX call success perform the following:

Inject JSON response data into HTML

Dynamically build HTML that displays selected player information and inject that into HTML page

Proxy code

In order to build your own version the sample app on this page, you must create and host your own proxy. (The proxies used by Brightcove Learning Services only accept requests from Brightcove domains.) A sample proxy, very similar to the one we use, but without the checks that block requests from non-Brightcove domains, can be found in this GitHub respository. You will also find basic instructions for using it there, and a more elaborate guide to building apps around the proxy in Using the REST APIs.